The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-17

Hon. JOHN b. CLARKE of the Manchester
Mirror and Farmer was at the Pavilion last
week.
c. c. EATON is passing fortnight in the
Adirondack region with Canton, n. Y,
friends.
PROFESSOR L. A. BISHOP is to conduct the
meeting in the church at Wrightsville next
Sunday.
Mrs. j. o. SHERBURN and children will
spend part of the week at Northfeld
camp-ground.
HENRY BIGGs will make Boston his future
home, having resigned the superintendency
of the Montpelier Carriage Company.
SELEcTMAN LANE is giving his personal
attention to placing the stone-crusher in
position and other details of the work.
A. G.. FAY of Plainield has moved to
Montpelier and hung his shingle from
window in the office of c. II. Heath, Esq
REV. j. j. LEWIS of South Boston is to
preach in the Church of the Messiah next
Sunday morning in exchange with Mr..
Wright.
THE proposed game of baseball between
clerks of this village and the Young Mems
Catholic Union has been postponed for
fortnight.
Mrs. w. b. LUCAS and daughter of South
Boston, Mass, and Mrs. w. S. Martin of
Plainfeld have visited with Mrs. n. Davis
the past week.
Mrs. OsGooD and two daughters of First
avenue are enjoying vacation of two or
three weeks at the home of Mrs Osgood's
parents in Barre.
Mrs. CHARLES SMITH and her little daugh-
ter Florence, who have been visiting in
Lebanon, n. H., for some time past, have
returned to Montpelier.
THE interior of the Church of the Messiah
is to be repainted and frescoed and the
Blanchard Opera-house will be used by the
congregation that worship therein during
the progress of the work.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union is to hold tea-party this (Wednes-
day afternoon at four o'clock at the house
of Mrs. ID. L. Fuller. A programme of read
ing and music has been prepared.
AT the close of the band concert Wednes-
day evening the musicians were invited to
the Pavilion dining-room to partake of re-
freshments prepared for them at the direc-
ton of Mr.. Viles. 1t was pleasant affair
THE ArguS was rather rough on brother
democrat of Middlesex in printing card
last week in which the man was stigmatized
as without brains or calculation His
fellow-townsmen have much better opinion
of him.
Mr.. AND Mrs. II. C. BANCROFT and the
Misses A. T. and NJ S. Greenleaf of Column
bus, Ohio, and Mrs. Beknap and family of
San Antonio, Texas, who have been at the
Pavilion for few weeks past, have gone to
New York city.
CHARLES DEF. BANCROFT is away on an
extended vacation. 1t is his intention to
visit various places in Massachusetts, and
spend a fortnight in New York city before
his return. Mrs. Bancroft is visiting friends
in st. Albans meanwhile.
THE dwelling-house at the corner of State
and MddleseX streets, and the lot opposite,
belonging to the estate of the late Mary l..
w. Reed, advertised to be sold at public
auction August 18th, were purchased in adj
vance by II. r. Bixby for 5000.
FIFTY Sir Knights went from here Mon
day afternoon to he present at the laying of
the cornerstone of Bennington battle monu-
ment. At Essex Junction they transferred
TO Pullman car, which was made the head
quarters during the trip and time spent at
! Bennington
THE following item from the Boston
| .Journal will be of interest to many Mont.
pelier people: Colonel John Bracewell, a
manufacturer of North Adams, will soon
| take a trip to Europe. He will probably be
| accompanied by Rev. George b. Spaldng,
DID,, pastor of the First Presbyterian church
in Syracuse, n. Y"
PATRICK j. KANE of East Montpelier, a
farmer about fifty years of age and we'll
known in this vicinity, hung himself in his
barn Monday afternoon. His mind had been
impaired and he had been in poor health for
long time and dependency is believed to
have been the cause of the sad act. The
deceased leaves wife and three children
LETTERS uncaled for at the Montpelier
(Vt.) post-office August 10, 1887:
| willis d. Bugbee, Shade Shields,
Frank Deong, Rollin sherman
Fred r. HOrr C. Worthen
|. NJ. Lord. w. Ufford.
Barnet SahNe,
Parties applying for any of the above must
say advertised and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
OUR attention has been called to the
printed proceedings of the last annual ses.
sion held at Burlington in June, of the
Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and
the Grand Council of Royal and Select
Masters. Both are issued in pamphlet form
by Thomas H. Cave of Barre and each
furnishes an excellent specimen of the
printers art,
A LOT of Texas horses were sold at auc
ton here on Saturday last. One of then
afforded amusement to large number al
the corner of Main and State streets Mon
day evening, At the sale the animal was
positively stated to be perfectly kind and
gente;" at the street corner it baked and
bit at the rider in an exceedingly unkinC
and ungentle manner, and at last lay dowr
in the middle of the street and positively re
fused to bulge an inch till relieved of tht
load upon its back.
THE fall term of the Vermont Methods
Seminary will omen Monday August %